Episode 10: Lawless

Lawless is the tenth episode of the Servamp anime. As Lawless and Licht fight it out on the top floor of the hotel Licht forces Lawless to confront the tragedies in his past.

Plot
The episode begins with a flashback. Lawless visites a piano  concert (from Licht) alongside his current eve. While Laless is listening to Lichts music, he decides to make him his new eve, and just kills his current eve shortly after the show.

Back in the current timeline Licht and Lawless are fighting and having an argument: Lawless believes, that every human life meant nothing, every excistence doesn't make any sence. People were just living and diying, but there was no meaning to it. On the other hand Licht believes the opposite - plus, he claims that Lawless was the only one who was "nothing" and who doesn't wan't to become anything. He also states, that Lawess is not worthy of the sin "Greed" - as he doesn't want to be anyone or doesn't desire anything.

Another flashback:

Lawless is seen in a foreing land with its princess: Ophelia. The two of them seem to be very close to each other. Another flashback (inside the flashback). Lawless is hung because he was a vampire, and when he finally changed into hedhodge form, young Ophelia tries to free him. She doesn't give up, although she gets hurt by his spikes. The two of them get closer.

Back in the first flashback's timeline, tensions between Ophelia's and a neighbour country are rising. These tensions force a marriage between Ophelia and the prince of the neighbour country. Lawless wants Ophelia to be safe and tells her to flee with him so that the both of them could live in freedom. But Ophelia makes clear - it's not freedom she desires the most - but peace. She says, taht she won't run away from her duties, and she will marry the prince to become a symbol of peace.

And after the wedding - the two countries make an alliance - which doesn't last very long. The council decides, that Ophelia will have to die for the sake of peace. Lawless who was eavesdropping, tries a new to save his love, but she just repeats herself: the one thing she desires the most is peace - even more than her life, and if diying means bringing peace to her country, she'd die. Lawless has to struggle with teas and tells her, he just could kill every person who tries to harm her - but again, Ophelia tells him, we won't be able to do so, cause he never would take that thing away from her, that she desired the most. Ophelia also states, that the servamp of greed really is fitting her - as she desires the peace so much, she'd die for it.

On the day of her exicution, she gives her final speak to the people - now that she is dying, she truly hopes that her people will live peacefully with their neighbour. And again, peace came.

A statue in honour of Ophelia was built, and Lawless guided it day and night. Event two (human) generations he still is sitting there and cries over her lost.

One day, Old Child appears and tells him, that there is a Servamp meeting he should attend to. At first, Lawless doesn't want to come (he did not want to leave the Ophelia statue), but yet he does.

On the meeting they decided wether their creator should be killed or not - it was the vote of Sleepy Ash, that made the decision: he should be killed. Lawless gets utterly desperated and yells (still traumatized by the "sensless" death of his love and probably the fear, that now even his father figure - their creator- would die too) after Sleepy Ash that he will never be able to bring peace in that way.

When Laless later returned to his country, it's totally destroyed, even the statue of Opelia was nothing but a ruin now. A third nation had attackt the two nations and destroyed everything. Lawless can't compensate all that has happened and starts to sing and love - he states, that he is not sad at all because - there is no life in the world that has a meaning.

Back in the current timeline Lawless (in an abstract appearance) is surprised, that Licht doesn't cry, although this story is so sad. Again the two of them argue. Licht gets on the stage and plays Beethoven's "Für Elise". Lawless states, that he doesn't like it, because it's so sad. Licht gainsays and tells Lawless, that it always depends on the person who listens to it. Now Lawless realizes - that not "Für Elise" but he himself is sad.

Lawless realizes, that Licht was right all along - he never tried to be someone or "something" hard enough. When Licht askes him, WHO he is, Lawless realizes: he wanted to be the one, to hold Ophelias hand and never let it go again, he was the one who should have been the one who fought harder for his love in order to save her.

Now Lawless clearly sees, who he wants to be!

The two of them break out from their "prison" and encounter Higan...

Differences from Manga
This episode sticks very close to the original manga chapter.

Characters

 * Lawless
 * Licht Jekylland Todoroki
 * Tetsu Sendagaya
 * Hugh
 * Belkia
 * Otogiri
 * Shamrock
 * Higan
 * Ophelia
 * Kuro
 * Snow Lily
 * Jeje
 * World End
 * The Mother